Jack E. Coster has been appointed chairman of West Virginia University’s Division of Forestry, according to Dale W. Zinn, dean of the College of Agriculture and Forestry.
Jack E. Coster has been appointed chairman of West Virginia University’s Division of Forestry, according to Dale W. Zinn, dean of the College of Agriculture and Forestry.
C. F. Millspaugh, in his “Flora of West Virginia” (1892), p. 401, reported Kalmia angustifolia L. from Calhoun, Upshur, Nicholas, Randolph, and Hardy counties, West Virginia. Specimens from his collections, however, were apparently misidentified and actually represented Kalmia latifolia L. P. D. Strausbaugh and Earl L. Core, in their “Flora of West Virginia” (2nd ed., p. 714), concluded that Millspaugh’s listing of K. angustifolia was “through error.”
Cornus foemina Miller, a species of the southeastern US, is attributed to Ohio by Braun (1961) on the basis of a specimen from Wood County, having “slender white pith, and leaves green beneath.”
Harry Price Sturm, a former resident of Clarksburg, West Virginia, died in Ocala, Florida, September 6, 1979.
A List of Georgia Plants in the University of Georgia Herbarium has recently been prepared by Dr. Samuel B. Jones, Jr., and Mrs. Nancy C. Coile, Curator and Assistant Curator, of the University of Georgia Herbarium.
In Frost, “State Record for Potamogeton confervoides in South Carolina,” Castanea 45:2. 146-147, a line was inadvertently omitted.
Thuja occidentalis L. and other rare Kentucky vascular plants were recently collected from the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky.
A descriptive study of the woody plants from Mingo Wilderness Area in the Southeastern Missouri Lowlands contiguous with the Ozark Highlands was conducted from June 1977, through June 1979. Seven forest community types are described within the regional Southern Floodplain Forest and Oak-Hickory Forest. Geographical floristic affinities, relative abundance values, and vegetational community types are presented in an annotated catalogue comprising 128 trees, shrubs, and vines.
This is an excellent guide for landscape architects, gardeners, homeowners, and others interested in creating a rich and diverse bird habitat.
A check-list is presented of the pteridophytes known to occur in Georgia. Also included are common names and distributional data. Georgia has 32 genera, 97 species, and 6 hybrids in its pteridophyte flora.